From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Sat Jun 18 21:44:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F53BA79AA8 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: from quine.pinyon.org (quine.pinyon.org [65.101.5.249]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1ECCA169C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:44:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix, from userid 122) id CBDD116030F; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:44:06 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on quine.pinyon.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from feyerabend.n1.pinyon.org (h5.esturion.net [65.101.5.253]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5FDE7160238; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:44:03 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: recs for TOSLINK stable/10 PCI audio card To: Clemens Ladisch , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <72691544-f4a4-71d1-3aa4-88ee187fecbc@pinyon.org> <746bc8fb-eeba-6510-cfb5-4490f6d76b44@pinyon.org> <483b32aa-943b-dc2a-8a03-bd39a99edf89@ladisch.de> From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-ID: <309a4e1f-ca87-edfd-afb9-5fc8fa3ae42f@pinyon.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:44:03 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <483b32aa-943b-dc2a-8a03-bd39a99edf89@ladisch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:44:14 -0000 On 06/18/16 05:39, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> So digging through the offerings on newegg, I am not seeing anything >> obvious that provides a TOSLINK connector and is *not* C-Media. > > Some mainboards have a toslink output. Indeed, I'm listening to S/PDIF TOSLINK output on the old mb I'm wanting to replace. It's a Realtek ALC889A: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/high-end-pc-audio,3733-6.html Sounds pretty good fed into a venerable NAD T-163. I also have a xonar dg but I can't tell the difference between the two (ancient ears). This is on linux. Apparently FreeBSD supports the ALC889A, which (also apparently) only comes on motherboards. > >> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/sound/pci/oxygen >> >> Is a clean room (re)implementation really required to avoid the license >> issue? > > Why, did the author refuse when you asked him? I didn't think of that. Doh. Upon evaluating all my options after a pretty thorough review of the situation, I'm going to shuffle some systems around so I can keep the multimedia function on the old mb. Best, Russell > > Regards, > Clemens